REALITY LACKING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20913, 13 October 1942, Page 5

REALITY LACKING

OUTLOOK ON WAR AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE SURFEIT OF SPORT (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Speeinl Australian Correspondent.) (2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 12. Criticism of the public “attitude oi unreality” towards the war, has been made in Australia. It was a disgrace after Mr. J. Curtin’s austerity appeal to see 74,000 people at 'the Randwick races on Saturday, said Mr. Arthur Mailey, the international cricketer. The money spent at Randwick would have bought 50 planes. Organised sport in wartime should be confined to schoolboys, said Mr. Mailey. The nation should forget every game which took manpower and money from the war effort. Sport, however, should be encouraged among the troops and every available ground should be- turned over to the fighting services. A bombing raid or two on Australian capitals might be a iesson in disguise, said Mr. 11. J. Timperley, adviser to the Chinese National Government’s Board of Information. Comparing the Australians’ attitude to the war with the stubborn heroism of the Chinese, Mr. Timperley, who himself is an Australian, said that when he heard his well-fed countrymen complaining of a shortage of luxuries he thought of the millions in China living on the verge of starvation. Debates on whether “victory” suits should have waistcoasts, made him remember that millions in China had scarcely a rag to their backs. “Our responsibility as Australians is to try to live up to the Chinese example of bravery and endurance which has never been excelled in human history,” declared Mr. Timperley.